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Location:

Milton,GA,USA

Member Since:

Jul 27, 2010

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

PR's -

Mile - 4:38    (High School)

2 Mile - 10:12 (High School) 

3 mile - 15:51 (High School)

10k - 35:19 (High School)

Marathon - 2:59 marathon (London -2013)

Half marathon - 1:25:18 (Deseret News 2013)

Completed all 6 of the World Marathon Majors 2024

Completed each of the 5 majors (NY, Chicago, Boston, London & Berlin) at least twice.

8 x Boston Marathon (1999, 2000, 2005, 2007, 2014, 2020 (virtual due to covid) 2021, 2022)

13 x NYC Marathon (1997, 1998, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023)

 

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Sub 3 hour marathon

Long-Term Running Goals:

Continue to enjoy running and racing as long as my body permits me.  

Personal:

Old guy - (grandfather even) been running for 40+ years.  

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Miles:This week: 17.75 Month: 107.20 Year: 376.05
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
85.506.000.000.0091.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
11.000.000.000.0011.00

AM - 3 miles before church on a very foggy warm morning at home. 

 

PM - 8 miles easy on a warm (mid 80's) afternoon.  

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.000.000.000.0010.00

PM - on the treadmill.  I have decided that I am not happy with where I am from an aerobic base perspective (its not terrible,its just not where I want it to be).  I recall reading in Lydiard's literature, that once your training moves away from aerobic base training, while you should be able to improve upon other components (AT, LT etc.) you will not improve your aerobic base any further for that training period.  Anyway, I have decided I would rather focus on that aspect for several weeks and hopefully see some improvement there before resuming tempo and threshold training.  Had a good run this evening.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
14.000.000.000.0014.00

AM - 3 miles easy this morning before work in ATL.  Windy and a little chilly.  Forgot to pack my gloves and hat.  

 

PM - 11 miles of aerobic running on the hotel treadmill after work. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.000.000.000.009.00

AM - cool and rainy morning - covered between 8 and 9 miles before work.  Slow but felt really good at the end.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
15.500.000.000.0015.50

AM - 3 miles before work in FL - started to rain at the end of the run.  Feeling good after the last few days of aerobic running.

PM - 12.5 miles of aerobic running on the treadmill at lunchtime (lengthier than my normal lunch).

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.006.000.000.0012.00

AM - 3 miles easy before work.  Had my annual physical this morning.  Weight is up (shocker) - though I expect that will resolve itself in the next few weeks -- but everything else is great.  Subthreshold tempo planned for later today.

 

PM - lunchtime 9 miles on the treadmill.  2 mile warm up then 6 miles at subthreshold pace (80% HRR) which as a happy coincidence was 6:53 per mile for me (nearly the MP pace I was running a year ago).  1 mile cool down.  Really pleased with how the extra miles at the aerobic effort for this week has really improved lots of issues I was having over the last couple of week. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
20.000.000.000.0020.00

PM - long run of 20 miles.  Bit of an atypical Florida day - fog, cool and with occasional drizzle. A little windy at times too.  Sort of on the slow side, but a decent effort nonetheless.  

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
85.506.000.000.0091.50
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